Social Explorer
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Description
Social Explorer provides convenient access to several major sources of demographic data: the U.S. Decennial Census of population and housing, the American Community Survey, and data on religion from InfoGroup and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study. Social Explorer's strength is its interactive mapping tool that allows data to be easily visualized, as well as the easy creation of data extracts.
Help
Help documents and how-to videos are available from the top menu bar.
User tools and features
Users can generate custom reports and maps using the "Maps" and "Reports" tabs respectively. Creating a personal account allows the user to save reports, maps, and slideshows.
Dates covered
From 1790 to the present.
Updating frequency
Annual.
Sources
Social Explorer is an independent project that has developed its own interface to display data from the U.S. Decennial Census of population and housing, the American Community Survey, and data on religion from InfoGroup and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study.
Type of coverage
Data.
Print counterpart or
related resources
None.
Producer/content provider
Social Explorer
Vendor/electronic presentation provider
Oxford Online
Core Subject(s)
Supplementary Subject(s)